Linkpost | 10.13.2013

• Why US government IT fails so hard, so often – Clunky procurement processes, revolving door management and legacy systems make it difficult for government tech projects to operate smoothly and efficiently. (And these same issues affect large, lumbering businesses in the same way.)

• Costolo was fired by Twitter in 2010, new book says – A Twitter board member fired then-COO Dick Costolo in 2010. Costolo then questioned the decision and the board reinstated him, according to Nick Bilton’s upcoming book about Twitter. He later became Twitter’s CEO.

• Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works – A fascinating look at Google’s internal tools, processes and restrictions. Employees are blocked from using popular services like Dropbox, as they are at many big companies.